Just over 2,500 Nova Scotia Power customers on Peggys Cove Road woke up Friday morning in the dark after an outage knocked out electricity for those living along the shore of St. Margaret’s Bay.
The utility’s outage map showed it running along the road from Upper Tantallon to East Dover.
As of 7 a.m., Nova Scotia Power had not identified the cause of the outage and said the estimated restoration time would be around 2 p.m. Friday.
Nova Scotia’s largest electric utility activated its emergency operations centre ahead of the wintry blast. It issued a statement Thursday evening saying rain and snow will be whipped up by strong winds, lashing the province on Friday.
Environment Canada issued wind warnings for the northeastern corner of mainland Nova Scotia and all of Cape Breton, saying damaging gusts could reach 100 kilometres per hour.
The federal agency says power outages are possible.
Earlier this week, almost 30,000 homes and businesses across Nova Scotia were left without power as a large low-pressure system dumped heavy, wet snow across the province, leading to the shutdown of a major highway.
The utility says the extra weight of wet snow and ice on trees can snap branches and bring down power lines and utility poles.
With files from The Canadian Press.